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Dr. Milton Francis Clark, medical representative of the king of Greece in San Francisco, makes medical history when he successfully installs a new silver-and-diamond heel joint in a small dog. — Jan 17
A state board recommends building a train bridge across the Bay. — May 2
A 2:00 a.m. liquor sales ban goes into effect and is honored throughout the city, which ceases "to have its usually light-jeweled streets after" that hour. — Aug. 11
Indebted to loan sharks, Emma Ryan of Sixth Avenue South, young wife of teamster John Ryan, attempts suicide with gas but is saved by the wild barking of her small dog, Hope. — Aug. 26
Filled with mementos, the cornerstone of the new California Mission-style Mission Dolores Church is laid in front of 2,000 parishioners at the corners of Sixteenth and Dolores streets to replace the brick church destroyed in the fire of 1906. (The old adobe church next door had survived.) — Sept. 7
To compete with Oakland's superior baseball yard, work is to begin at once on a new 18,000-seat Masonic Avenue ballpark for the San Francisco Seals. — Oct. 30
Ella Llewellyn, daughter of a San Joaquin county farmer, arrives in Oakland on a train wearing corduroy trousers, cowboy hat and a man's overcoat and is arrested for transvestitism: "Standing still she looked like a youth of 18, but when she started to cross a puddle and grabbed one of her trouser legs, Patrolman Charles Berwick grew suspicious, and gripping her shoulder, said: "Excuse me, Miss, but there is a law against girls wearing boy's clothes." — Dec. 19